African teachers on the colonial frontier : Tswana evangelists and their communities during the nineteenth century /

Volz, Stephen.

African teachers on the colonial frontier : Tswana evangelists and their communities during the nineteenth century / Stephen C. Volz. - New York : Peter Lang, c2011. - xii, 293 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. - Bible & theology in Africa, v. 9 1525-9846 ; . - Bible and theology in Africa ; v. 9. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Peculiar strangeness : African evangelists and European colonization -- Native brethren : African agency and the establishment of the first Tswana missions, 1800-1835 -- Influential young men : faith and power in southern Tswana communities, 1830-1860 -- Wagons of God : evangelism and trade among northern Batswana, 1840-1865 -- Smeared with chalk : Tswana conversion to Christianity -- Ecclesiastical tyranny : European colonization and the regulation of Tswana Christianity, 1860-1890.

9781433109492 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1433109492 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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Tswana (African people)--Religion.
Evangelists--History--South Africa--19th century.
Evangelists--History--Botswana--19th century.
Tswana (African people)--Missions--History--19th century.


South Africa--Church history--19th century.
Botswana--Church history--19th century.

BR1450 / .V57 2011

266.008996/39775